1st Place - 2014 Marietta, GA Store Championship (runner)

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I came up with this deck at 1:30 AM while driving home from trip to play in a local tournament with some friends in my hometown. I'd played criminal for a looong time (basically since I started playing), and I thought that bringing the event-heavy style to Chaos Theory's smaller deck and Shaper tricks could be great.

I played it 6 days later untested in the Athens, GA Store Championship, finishing in 4th. After the tournament I made a few modifications to bring it to its current state, those being:

dropped 3x Dinosaurus for 3x Maker's Eye - Dino was always a huge tempo hit, which is basically the opposite of this deck's goal. I had it in just about every game but never actually wanted to play it.

dropped 3x Modded for 3x Sure Gamble - Modded was great turn 1 when I could drop Magnum Opus for 2 credits, but late-game it was basically a dead draw.

dropped 1x Plascrete Carapace for 1x Levy AR Lab Access - I realized that either I could count influence and know whether or not I could float tags, I'd remove them, or I'd go for broke and race them to the finish while I chained Siphons.

I'm incredibly happy with this deck. I think it's excellent and works well against so many popular archetypes right now. It only lost once all day, going 6-1, with the loss happening during the swiss rounds.

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